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seamen, is an animal nearly akin to the Narwhal, hut it is not 
provided with a tusk, and it has some teeth situated in the front 
half only of the jaws, which are conical, oblique, often truncated 
from attrition, and in the upper jaw not unfrequently disappearing. 
These teeth vary in number, hut there is usually a row of nine 
above and eight below, occasionally one more or less. The colour 
of the Beluga is wholly white, but the young are black. In 
length it rarely exceeds fifteen feet. According to Mr. B. Brown, 
this animal “is, beyond all comparison, so far as its importance 
to the Greenlander and Eskimo are concerned, the Whale of 
Greenland. Like the Narwhal, it is indigenous ; but it is only 
seen on the coast of Danish Greenland during the winter months, 
leaving the coast south of 72 Q N. lat. in June, and roaming 
about at the head of Baffin’s Bay and the western shore of Davis’s 
Strait during the summer. In October it is seen to go west, 
not south ; but in winter it can be observed, in company with the 
Narwhal, at the broken places in the ice. Its range may be said 
to be the same as that of the Narwhals ; and during the summer 
months corresponds with that of the Bight Whale, of which it is 
considered the precursor. It, however, wanders farther south than 
the Narwhal, being found as a regular denizen as far south as 
63° N. lat., on the European coast, though on the opposite, 
or American side of the Atlantic, it reaches much farther 
south, being quite common in the St. Lawrence river. The 
Greenlanders, during the summer, kill great numbers of them, 
and preserve their oil and dry their flesh for winter use. Of 
this animal and the Narwhal about 500 are yearly caught by 
the Greenlanders ; but the majority of this number are Belugas. 
It feeds on Crustaceans, Fishes, and Cuttles, and in the stomach 
is generally found sand. The Greenlanders often jocularly remark, 
in reference to this, that the Kelelluak takes in ballast. Great 
numbers are captured by means of nets at the entrance of fjords 
and inlets, or in the sounds between islands. The young are 
darker coloured than the adult, and can at once be distinguished 
among the herds of the adults, which are of a pinky- white colour. 
It is said to be rarely seen far from land. The males and females 
go together in the herd, and do not separate, as has been stated. 
Their blast is not unmusical ; and, when under the water, they 
emit a peculiar whistling sound, which might be mistaken for the 
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